Neighborhood eco-efficiency A Finnish perspective

Mitigating the detrimental impacts of neighborhood development projects and acting beyond regulatory environmental requirements has become a business strategy for many stakeholders within the industry. This research investigates whether the international neighborhood ecoefficiency rating tools can be implemented in Finland. Based on the study, a few mandatory requirements of the referenced international rating tools may be infeasible for Finnish residential developments projects. In addition, meeting some evaluation criteria might not always be plausible due to local conditions and irrelevance to local environmental goals. One viable option might be to use the existing international tools, but only adopt criteria suitable for the particular sustainability goals of the local project, even though the project would not achieve an international certification.